Daily writing prompt

Where would you go on a shopping spree?

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I understand it’s one of the biggest, most comprehensive tarot stores in the world.

I have collected tarot decks since college and still have the one I used back then (Crowley’s Thoth deck.) Decades of collecting have left me with fifty decks and a collector’s pickiness. No, no, not just any deck will do, not just some mass-produced deck on Amazon. I prefer privately published editions, or at least decks I haven’t seen a hundred times in bookstores.

Tarot collecting came into vogue a few years ago, the volume of published decks exploded, and I watched the value of my collection plunge, but I never bought them with an eye to selling them. I just like the pictures, and those haven’t changed. My reaction to a deck going from three figures to two (or even one) is a shrug.

The prices still rise and fall, however, and occasionaly I’ll check online and note the deck I paid $15 for in the early oughts is now worth several hundred dollars. Which is nice.